On Dec 27, 2013, UK newspaper The Independent published Super-yacht not big enough? Seasteads offer libertarians the vision of floating cities for the future. We at The Seasteading Institute were deeply disappointed with many of the inaccurate and disdainful descriptions of seasteaders and consequently sent a letter to their editor. The abbreviated version of the letter was printed in Mondays paper, and reposted here. Our full letter can be found on our website. Floating islands for everyone Thank you for taking the time to explore and report about the Seasteading Institute (27 December). However, I’m not clear how you construed that the first settlement was for very rich libertarians. Purchasing a unit at €5,500 a square metre is not only for “very wealthy” people. That’s lower than the average price for housing in London. Although our founders are from the libertarian persuasion, our movement is much larger than this and our goal is to make seasteading a technology available to anyone who wishes to pursue a new form of governance. We are not all “right-wing” and nor do we want to pay others to do our “dirty work”. You chose not to write anything about our vision of enriching the poor by creating new spaces that welcomed immigrants where they could start fresh new lives; you didn’t write about how we hope experimenting with new systems of governance will help existing nations choose better policies after witnessing them tested on a seastead; you didn’t write anything about how we want to peacefully create new nations as a solution to the political bottleneck of nearly all established nations. I invite your readers to learn more about our initiative and to read my full response to The Independent’s article atseasteading.org. Randolph Hencken Executive Director, The Seasteading Institute, San Francisco
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:47:27 +0000
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